Children who have hearing losses often misunderstand or are misunderstood when they communicate with others. Developing Communication Strategies introduces a treatment program to help children develop strategies for coping with this communication breakdown. Emphasis is placed on helping children learn to supplement speech, speechreading, listening and / or sign skills with techniques for managing the enviroment (e.g., background noise, distance from th speaker) and alternate communication modalities (e.g., writing).
based on nine years of research conducted at The University of Iowa's Wendell Johnson Speech and Hearing Center, this 57-minute video provides parents, teachers and clinicians with a foundation for designing activities to be used in home, school, and clinic settings. Clips from actual treatment sessions allow viewers to gain insight regarding the children's reactions to communication breakdown and the benefits of coping strategies introduced through the treatment program.
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Everyone is Communicating, winner of the prestigious Telly Award for health videos, teaches new ways to communicate effectively with a person whose disability may make communication seem difficult. Through animation, a professional cartoonist tells of ways people can benefit from sharing their similarities with others as well as valuing each other's uniqueness in order to make comunication fun and interesting.
Jill L. Elfenbein, Ph.D, holds American Speech-Language-Hearing Association certification in both Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology and had twenty years of clinical experience in public school, hospital, and university clinic settings. At present, she is an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University where she continues to do research in the area of rehabilitative audiology.
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